Love (not) Google

[SonomaProducts.com]

I have always used the free access to groups via Google groups. I don't know any other so if it is bad I don't realize it. It is a pain sometimes though.

1. It only remembers me for a week or two, then I have to re-log and redo all my settings.
2. Lately all links started jumping to some page that said "Redirecting blah blah" then the page would show up after a few seconds. Now all links go to an error page and every link is shown with appended to the beginig of the link. I guess all valid links should start with Google. Do no harm. Uh-hu.

P.S. hard to type today with index on right hand having a sanded tip from edge sander and index on left having brad point bit drilled into finger print... oops.

[Doug Miller]

Solution to all of the problems: download a free news client (there are many), then sign up for a free account at eternal-september.org.

[FrozenNorth]

Except for the aggressive sanding and drilling he did on his hands. ;-)

[Doug Miller]

Yeah, missed that one. Sorry.

[lektric dan]

What is your browser? Have you upgraded or made any changes recently? Is it set to purge cookies or history after a set period of time? Behavior(s) #1 sound like problems I've run into with Firefox. I cured it by whitelisting the cookies for google and some other sites. I just recently had a bunch of stuff break when I upgraded from 3.5.whatever to 3.6. I had to either re-install or download upgrades for the add-ons; a real pita. Problem #2 sounds familiar too. I think it may be a setting in your browser, but without knowing what it is, cannot confuse matters more...

It's been a while since I hurt myself (and saying that just started a curse...). I can remember usung my belt sander on a small, thin piece of wood using a coarse belt. The belt grabbed the piece of wood and spit it across the shop. Before I could pull back, I had pressed my hand into the belt: it grabbed three of my fingers and spun the skin around the bone, sanding them on two sides. Hard to explain how you managed to sand *between* your fingers!

[Roy]

Perhaps we could suggest he abandon the overly aggressive tailed tools and take up the hand plane and scraper along with the brace and bow drill?

[SonomaProducts.com]

[WW]

My right index finger is 1/8 th inch shorter due to having it sucked into a disk sander in high school woodshop. Too much clearance between disk and table. Lesson learned. WW

[Robatoy]

OUCH!

[Larry Jaques]

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:09:24 -0700, the infamous "WW" scrawled the following:

Wow, it's real? School shop tools actually do suck, _physically_? Will wonders never cease?

[Charlie Groh]

...hehehe, and I learned all about garage door hardware yesterday when one came down on me (me the dummy temping the main bracket up with 1

1/2" lags meaning to change 'em out for the long ones only to forget)...lucky only half gave way!

cg